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LEVER

Yes, LEVER was the Wordle answer on October 10, 2025 (Wordle #1574).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈliː.və//ˈlɛv.ɚ//ˈli.vɚ/

Noun

A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.

Noun

A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button).

Verb

To move with a lever.

“With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.”

Verb

To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).

Alternative forms: liever

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English lever, levore, levour, from Old French leveor, leveur (“a lifter, lever (also Old French and French levier)”), from Latin levātor (“a lifter”), from levō (“to raise”). Doublet of levator.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LEHVUR.

Rhymes with NEVER SEVER HAVER BEVER

Related meanings

Synonyms PRIZE JIMMY pry

In a sentence

Press down on the lever.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Please push up the lever.
© tatoeba.org contributor JimBreen (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use LEVER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 10, 2025 (#1574).

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LEVER in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How LEVER performs as a guess

LEVER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,774 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

L___R L in the 1st position and R in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position LE_ER L in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in LEVER.

First-turn measures

All four describe LEVER used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.37 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEVER performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#10,774 Rank among openers
Opening with LEVER left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,774 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
771
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
323
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
28%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
C L U M P
L E V E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LEVER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LEVER can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

547 answers
306 answers
262 answers
202 answers
128 answers
102 answers
89 answers
62 answers
49 answers
46 answers
44 answers
39 answers
32 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for LEVER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

L1E1V4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

SAINT COAST BLASE TRIAL ABOUT ADMIN

Strategy after playing LEVER

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to LEVER.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEVER:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
COAST
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

22.9% →
SAINT 6.08 bits
12.8% →
COAST 5.50 bits
11.0% →
COAST 5.05 bits
8.5% →
SAINT 5.56 bits
5.4% →
COAST 4.81 bits
4.3% →
BLASE 4.59 bits
3.7% →
COAST 3.50 bits
2.6% →
SAINT 4.41 bits
2.1% →
SAINT 4.41 bits
1.9% →
TRIAL 4.04 bits

Research on LEVER

Game-tree analysis and word research for LEVER, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with LEVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,649 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with LEVER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LEVER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).